We had a useless assistant manager that worked for us. Always calling off, never got his people to get work done, etc. So day before he is supposed to start his vacation, he calls off sick. We thought it was gonna be a staycation. He had actually booked a week in Vegas. He was actually calling FROM the lobby in Vegas to call off. Which was his downfall as during the call, someone hit the jackpot on the slots behind him. Idiot.

WTH? How can you get fired 8 times from 3 police departments? Why would a department re-hire someone they fired? More than once? 5 times? WTF?I cant imagine a company that fired me (yep, it has happened) would hire me back and I'm a machinist!

Someone needs to dig a little deeper on this one, because no matter how you slice it, there is a serious problem in the system and it is clearly illustrated.

"The department told arbitrator Jeanne Wood that Sgt. German Bosque should be terminated because he had left a city-owned, 30-round assault rifle like the one used to slaughter 20 elementary school children last year in Connecticut in the hands of his then-girlfriend's father. "

"The department told arbitrator Jeanne Wood that Sgt. German Bosque should be terminated because he had left a city-owned, 30-round assault rifle like the one used to slaughter 20 elementary school children last year in Connecticut in the hands of his then-girlfriend's father.

You would think that, by now, even his own local police union would have taken this shiatstain out back behind the station and administered some "justice" to him for making the rest of them look like absolute jackasses for standing behind him the other 6 times he has been fired by his *current* police department (he was fired by 2 other departments *before* the Opa-Locka PD hired him).

"The department told arbitrator Jeanne Wood that Sgt. German Bosque should be terminated because he had left a city-owned, 30-round assault rifle like the one used to slaughter 20 elementary school children last year in Connecticut in the hands of his then-girlfriend's father.

Nice grammar fail.

YOU try writing "Slaughtered 20 elementary school children" into every gun related story.

Percise1:WTH? How can you get fired 8 times from 3 police departments? Why would a department re-hire someone they fired? More than once? 5 times? WTF?I cant imagine a company that fired me (yep, it has happened) would hire me back and I'm a machinist!

Percise1:WTH? How can you get fired 8 times from 3 police departments? Why would a department re-hire someone they fired? More than once? 5 times? WTF?I cant imagine a company that fired me (yep, it has happened) would hire me back and I'm a machinist!

Someone needs to dig a little deeper on this one, because no matter how you slice it, there is a serious problem in the system and it is clearly illustrated.

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Probably had a deal if he agreed to "resign" they wouldn't say he was a shiatbag, but if it comes up for a trial they can't lie about it.

CruiserTwelve:No union gave this dirty cop his job back. It was either a civil service board or an arbitrator

No the unions just gave him legal backing and promised to sue if they did can him.

The point of that old saying "one bad apple" isn't to point out the rarity of "bad apples", but to point out the importance of weeding those rotten apples from the bunch. It also helps prove that 99% of cops are evil as they don't want their fellow criminals outed.

Good cops would want these fools gone. What we see is cops lining up to support these bad apples.

Came into this thread expecting people to ignore that the guy has been fired eight times and make broad statements attacking cops but not the unions that allow this nonsense to go on. Because there are no facets of modern liberal politics that are flawed. None. They must all be protected.

We had a useless assistant manager that worked for us. Always calling off, never got his people to get work done, etc. So day before he is supposed to start his vacation, he calls off sick. We thought it was gonna be a staycation. He had actually booked a week in Vegas. He was actually calling FROM the lobby in Vegas to call off. Which was his downfall as during the call, someone hit the jackpot on the slots behind him. Idiot.

He should have just played if of and said he was watching the T.V show Las Vegas.

Cletus C.:Making decisions based on the rules and guidelines set out in the union-negotiated collective bargaining agreement with a union attorney representing him at each hearing.

So what are you saying? Cops shouldn't be able to negotiate working conditions and wages? They shouldn't be allowed to be represented by counsel at employment and disciplinary hearings?

I don't like it any more then anyone else when some jerk that shouldn't be a cop gets his job back, but to blame a union for that is wrong. If a hearing officer, civil service board or arbitrator gives a bad cop his job back it's almost always the fault of the employer for making a bad disciplinary decision OR failing to follow the proper procedures to terminate the person. It's not the union's fault for defending the contract or the procedures.

CruiserTwelve:Cletus C.: Making decisions based on the rules and guidelines set out in the union-negotiated collective bargaining agreement with a union attorney representing him at each hearing.

So what are you saying? Cops shouldn't be able to negotiate working conditions and wages? They shouldn't be allowed to be represented by counsel at employment and disciplinary hearings?

I don't like it any more then anyone else when some jerk that shouldn't be a cop gets his job back, but to blame a union for that is wrong. If a hearing officer, civil service board or arbitrator gives a bad cop his job back it's almost always the fault of the employer for making a bad disciplinary decision OR failing to follow the proper procedures to terminate the person. It's not the union's fault for defending the contract or the procedures.

Representation at disciplinary hearings? Why is there even a freaking hearing? We did an investigation. You did/didn't do this. This is your punishment. That is the real world. Employment hearing. Good grief.

CruiserTwelve:It's not the union's fault for defending the contract or the procedures

No but it is the Unions fault for making the contract and procedures so burdensome that asshats like this can do things that would make an average joe a felon. It is his fellow officers fault for not arresting him for these things.

jayphat:Representation at disciplinary hearings? Why is there even a freaking hearing? We did an investigation. You did/didn't do this. This is your punishment. That is the real world. Employment hearing. Good grief.

So who gets to do the investigation and make the disciplinary decisions? The employer? Should the employee have no recourse if the decision is wrong or politically motivated?